The third sneak attack of the Liao army, the south is the most dangerous. The first to lead the team to climb the city was the fierce general of the Liao soldiers, Xiao Tielong, the son of Marshal Xiao Yanguang, who was known as Xiao Shuai and had the courage to be unstoppable. As soon as he climbed to the top of the city, he went on a killing spree, clearing a clearing, covering the other Liao soldiers to throw the ropes down, allowing a large number of sneak attackers to climb up.

The defenders of the city will not be able to resist it at all. By the time Zhong Mingwu rushed to the top of the city with 2,000 Zhong family troops, more than 1,000 enemy troops had climbed the head of the city.

Xiao Tielong is brave and invincible, and no one can stop him. Although Zhong Mingwu's martial arts are good, he can't resist alone. It's just that Zhong Mingwu is fully armed with steel armor and steel armor, using a sword-level broadsword, only attacking and not defending, with the assistance of his two lieutenants, he finally blocked him, and finally grabbed Xiao Tielong's flaw, slashed it with a knife, and cut Xiao Tielong's mace.

Xiao Tielong was taken aback, no matter how brave and invincible he was, he didn't have a weapon in his hand, so he had to jump off the city and escape.

As soon as Xiao Tielong left, the Liao army was leaderless, and most of them were hacked to death by the seed army, and the remaining four or five hundred people also jumped off the city.

Five thousand Zhongjia army became the Dinghai god needle tonight, on the city wall in each direction, as soon as the Zhongjia army went up, they only attacked but could not defend, countless big swords flew, killing the sneak attackers, making the third sneak attack of the Liao soldiers finally in vain.

At dawn the next day, Xiao Yanguang raised his account and counted the number of people lost in the two days. Through the situation reported by the generals, once summarized, more than 20,000 people were lost, including more than 200 treasure bumps of the Golden Vulture Iron Futu.

Each of the Iron Floats had undergone rigorous selection and brutal training, and now it had lost more than two hundred people at once. Jin Wushu's heart was more heartbroken than Xiao Yanguang, the marshal of the Liao State who had lost 20,000 horses.

Fortunately, Jin Wushu brought an extra thousand reservists with him before setting off, and arranged to escort grain and grass with logistics auxiliaries. Therefore, early this morning, Jin Wushu selected more than 200 people from the reserve personnel to join the Iron Floating Slaughter, and made the Iron Floating Slaughter into 3,000.

Because the two commanders were in a heavy mood, they had no intention of continuing to spend money here in Xinzhou, so they ordered the whole army to pull out the camp and go south to Taiyuan.

On August 22, Xiao Yanguang led 180,000 Liao soldiers to surround Taiyuan. On the same day, he made two tentative attacks on Taiyuan City in succession, and after losing two or three thousand people, he did not move his troops and sent a scout horse to contact Wanyan Lou and Yelu Hongfu brothers.

Two days later, Yelu Hongfu and Yelu Qitian, who had attacked Shouzhou, arrived.

As soon as they entered the tent of the commander of the Chinese army, the two knelt down and pleaded guilty to Xiao Yanguang. Yelu Hongfu claimed that there were two or three thousand families in the city of Shouzhou, and their combat power was comparable to the iron floating slaughter of the Jin people, and the soldiers who attacked the city could not stand at all, all of them waved their steel knives and hacked to death at the head of the city, attacked for three days, lost 10,000 and 2 horses, and made no achievements, only to go south, and the marshal's men and horses to besiege Taiyuan.

Because the army under Xiao Yanguang's own personal command also lost troops, he did not send them too much. They were ordered to set up camp and participate in the siege of Taiyuan together.

With the arrival of another army, there were more than enough people and horses besieging Taiyuan, but because of the simultaneous defeat of Shouzhou and Xinzhou, Xiao Yanguang left a shadow of fear of the family army in his heart.

When discussing the military situation, Xiao Yanguang said to Jin Wushu: "This Taiyuan city has thick walls, and it is the first important town in the north of the Song people, and it is the foundation of the seed division, and there are more people and horses stationed, and the equipment of the soldiers must be better." Although we besieged Taiyuan City like an iron bucket, they had enough soldiers and food, as long as they did not take the initiative to attack, even if they besieged for half a year, they were helpless. ”

Jin Wushu disagrees with Xiao Yanguang's point of view, he thinks that it is a fact that the soldiers are well fed, but when it comes to equipment, probably the best equipped generals have already been dispatched.

Jin Wushu said that the equipment of the Zhongjia Army in Xinzhou is worth no less than 10,000 yuan. The sword is a sword-level sword, and the armor is the armor that is difficult to hurt by swords and arrows. He estimated that there were at least 3,000 Zhongjia troops in Xinzhou City, at least 2,000 Zhongjia troops in Shouzhou City, and the equipment needed by these 5,000 men and horses would cost 50 million taels of silver.

In the end, Jin Wushu concluded: "With such expensive equipment, I estimate that only Zhao Chongyang, the great Song Dynasty concubine who is known as a prodigy, can get it. But it won't be too much, after all, the quantity and quality of steel consumed are difficult to meet the requirements. ”

Therefore, Jin Wushu believed that only these thousands of men and horses had this kind of equipment, and all of them were sent out to guard Xinzhou and Shouzhou. Because, Zhong Shizhong believes that there will be enough soldiers in Taiyuan City, the city is high enough and thick enough, and without siege equipment, the Jinliao coalition army cannot break the city.

"But," said Jin Wushu in an accentuated tone, "If we have a ladder or other siege equipment for the siege, it is entirely possible to take Taiyuan City with several times the superior force. ”

After listening to Jin Wushu's analysis, Xiao Yanguang thought that Jin Wushu's analysis was reasonable, so he adopted his suggestion to select those who could carpenter among the hundreds of thousands of people in the whole army, and then let Xiao Tielong take 20,000 soldiers to assist the soldiers who knew carpentry to build siege equipment.

The Liao people are not better than the Jin people, the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun occupied by the Liao people originally lived a large number of Han people, and after they lived with the Liao people for more than 200 years, they intermarried with each other, integrated and assimilated with each other, and the Liao people also consciously learned the culture and skills of the Central Plains. Therefore, there was no shortage of carpenters and other craftsmen among the Liao soldiers.

In the process of selecting carpentry, there was a school captain named Liu Tongtian, who claimed that his family had been carpenters for generations, and he could build siege engines and stone throwing vehicles, and showed Xiao Yanguang the sketches of the two instruments he had painted.

Xiao Yanguang was overjoyed, and immediately appointed Liu Tongtian as the general of the craftsman battalion, leading more than 8,000 carpenters to be responsible for the production of siege equipment, and Xiao Tielong was responsible for leading people to cut down wood and lay hands......

There is strength in numbers. With the full cooperation of more than 20,000 people, the craftsmen of the Liao soldiers worked day and night, and in about 20 days, the craftsmen of the Liao soldiers built 300 stone-throwing vehicles, five behemoth-like siege vehicles, thousands of ladders, and many wooden shields.

It happened that Tanma came back to report that after finishing the 200,000 horses led by Yan Lou to attack the Yangjia General Village in Taihang Mountain, losing 10,000 Jin soldiers and 40,000 Liao soldiers, he retreated in defeat and prepared to come over to besiege Taiyuan together. In three days, we will be in Taiyuan.

Jin Wushu said to Xiao Yanguang that with an army of more than 300,000 people, with siege equipment, it is enough to fight Taiyuan, and it is impossible to squeeze in if there are too many people, so it is better to let them go south to Fenyang to deter Song Jiang, the current leader of the Jin army, and see what choice he makes.